The Women

Let's get the painful worst out of the way first so we can end this year on the high note of what was great.

Worst
1. Hounddog
A terribly written, amateurishly directed, horrendously acted, self-important parable about lost innocence rife with Adam and Eve symbolism; the film’s major claim to fame is the rape of 12-year-old Dakota Fanning. To call it offensively bad is to be kind. 

Dennis Quaid is pissed at Meg Ryan!

While Meg was promoting her absolutely god-awful film The Women, she got real chatty about who was at fault in her divorce with Quaid (perhaps trying to deflect attention away from the wretchedness of her movie) saying Dennis had cheated on her throughout the marriage.
Now Dennis is speaking out against his ex, saying she is only hurting their son Jack.

Diane English isn’t content simply demolishing film classics, now she wants to destroy Erica Jong’s infamously controversial 1973 novel Fear of Flying, a book legendary for sparking a new level of feminism, female sexuality and coining the phrase (and practice) of “the zipless f—k,” a sexual encounter had without emotional attachments strictly for the sake of enjoyment.

After years of largely abandoning the “Chick Flick,” this summer Hollywood took a page from the Spice Girls and tried to imbue their offerings with Girl Power. Their sad, misguided efforts produced some of the most cloying, least-realistic portrayals of women ever seen on screen.

Based on the 1933 Broadway smash and 1939 Hollywood classic starring Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell, The Women, with Eva Mendes in the Crawford Role, Meg Ryan replacing Shearer and Annette Benning taking over for Russell, was more than a challenging, pedigreed update, it was a labor of love that Diane English (Murphy Brown) has been gestating for over a decade. 

Like Freak Nasty said, “Don't even matter your age…I put my hand upon your hip, When I dip, you dip, we dip.”

Cloris Leachman, 82, arrives at the premiere of her new film The Women (she’s far and away the best part of the film, which is kind of like being the tallest person in Munchkinland) with her Dancing with the Stars partner Corky Ballas.

Annette Benning is already campaigning for her co-star. “She’s going to win! Winner! I predict right now,” Benning said.

Poor Tara Reid. She’s not even a hot mess; she’s just a messy, funky, puke-in-the-hair mess.

The former actress attended last night’s premiere of The Women in Los Angeles. Why? She’s not in it, we doubt she’s friends with Meg Ryan or Annette Benning and there’s really no place for her on the red carpet anymore. She hasn’t acted in years, she’s reportedly a raging alcoholic and she looks like a reheated poopburger.